Fresh A
| Fresh 91%
| Frost/Nixon (2008) | "
There's a taut, tight, punchy equilibrium to the film." — Fresno Bee Posted Jan 9, 2009 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 79%
| Gran Torino (2008) | "
Swirls with a textured and tangled complexity that results in a series of intimate, emotional and jaw-dropping moments in cinema." — Fresno Bee Posted Jan 9, 2009 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 93%
| Slumdog Millionaire (2008) | "
It's the kind of movie that tugs so politely but insistently at your heart strings that in the end it seems the most natural thing in the world to succumb to its joyous charms." — Fresno Bee Posted Dec 24, 2008 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 93%
| Milk (2008) | "
Marches forward with insistency and purpose. This immensely heart-felt biographical movie ranks as one of the year's best films." — Fresno Bee Posted Dec 24, 2008 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 85%
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) | "
The result is a musical that I dare say works even better on screen than on stage." — Fresno Bee Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 82%
| Into the Wild (2007) | "
I can't imagine a more faithful version than this taut, superbly told, ferociously filmed adventure." — Fresno Bee Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
Fresh A
| Rotten 54%
| Across the Universe (2007) | "
It's beautiful, moving, silly, strenuous, overreaching, exuberant and one of a kind." — Fresno Bee Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
Fresh A
| Rotten 58%
| Becoming Jane (2007) | "
There's something refreshingly spare and rough-hewn about this big-screen experience." — Fresno Bee Posted Aug 22, 2007 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 91%
| Hairspray (2007) | "
It's pitch perfect: a supreme slab of silly summer fun guaranteed to leave you singing as you exit the theater." — Fresno Bee Posted Jul 20, 2007 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 77%
| A Mighty Heart (2007) | "
A riveting experience that sears its way into your consciousness." — Fresno Bee Posted Jun 22, 2007 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 83%
| Breach (2007) | "
The enigma of Hanssen keeps the film as fresh and crisp as an FBI agent's white dress shirt." — Fresno Bee Posted Feb 16, 2007 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 68%
| Babel (2006) | "
Riveting and eloquent. One of the year's best." — Fresno Bee Posted Nov 16, 2006 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 97%
| The Queen (2006) | "
In Mirren's prim yet probing hands, Elizabeth becomes truly heartfelt." — Fresno Bee Posted Nov 3, 2006 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 69%
| World Trade Center (2006) | "
You sense that Stone is genuinely amazed by the resilience of these two men, and that helps temper the difficult subject matter.
" — Fresno Bee Posted Aug 9, 2006 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 86%
| Brokeback Mountain (2005) | "
A film so plaintive and touching that it almost seems to weep of its own accord." — Fresno Bee Posted Jan 24, 2006 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 90%
| Capote (2005) | "
A blazing wonder of a movie." — Fresno Bee Posted Nov 18, 2005 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 94%
| Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005) | "
Clooney drains the story of most of the stirring sentimentality and rousing rightness that could have bogged it down." — Fresno Bee Posted Nov 7, 2005 |
Fresh A
| Rotten 57%
| The Weather Man (2005) | "
There is, after the cloud cover burns off, a tantalizing sense of vitality and life." — Fresno Bee Posted Nov 3, 2005 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 92%
| Hotel Rwanda (2004) | "
This isn't a simple morality play with cardboard characters tugging at our heartstrings." — Fresno Bee Posted Jan 27, 2005 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 97%
| Sideways (2004) | "
Like a fine novel, it has threads that tangle, bits that tingle, sections that make you laugh out loud and moments that reach deep down and touch you in the gut." — Fresno Bee Posted Jan 27, 2005 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 88%
| The Aviator (2004) | "
Unfolds with the assurance of a heartbeat." — Fresno Bee Posted Dec 27, 2004 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 89%
| In America (2003) | "
A beautifully wrought, emotionally charged, dark-edged fairy tale of a film." — Fresno Bee Posted Dec 24, 2003 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 94%
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) | "
The film is big and beautiful, like a landmark cathedral you can read about ad nauseam in guide books but that still awes even the most jaded traveler in person.
" — Fresno Bee Posted Dec 17, 2003 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 97%
| Capturing the Friedmans (2003) | "
The Friedmans aren't merely captured for the audience -- they're stripped naked, then left to hop up and down on a bed of emotional hot coals." — Fresno Bee Posted Sep 19, 2003 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 94%
| American Splendor (2003) | "
Wildly original, fiercely funny, refreshingly unsentimental and so loyal to its source material that it splashes the real Harvey Pekar with abandon across the screen." — Fresno Bee Posted Sep 19, 2003 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 90%
| Whale Rider (2003) | "
It's truly a family film -- more so than many of the crass, commercial entertainments directed at children these days." — Fresno Bee Posted Jul 18, 2003 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 74%
| Signs (2002) | "
Shyamalan comes roaring back with the scariest movie I've seen since The Others." — Fresno Bee Posted Aug 2, 2002 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 75%
| Cross of Iron (1977) |
Click here to read article — Eye for Film Posted Mar 16, 2009 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 99%
| Battle of Algiers (1966) | "
It takes about an eighth of a second for the film to seem all too relevant." — Fresno Bee Posted May 13, 2004 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 92%
| Tokyo Sonata (2009) | "
The film in many ways is the bleakest indictment of contemporary Japanese culture I've seen. Yet it also functions as dark comedy, fierce character study and uplifting tale of redemption." — Fresno Bee Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 66%
| The Kite Runner (2007) | "
Both tender and brutal, the sweeping story touches upon such lofty themes as religious fundamentalism, the ravages of war and the overwhelmingly desolate nature of regret." — Fresno Bee Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 93%
| The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) | "
The original zing of the first film is back -- and in many ways is even better." — Fresno Bee Posted Aug 3, 2007 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 87%
| Notes on a Scandal (2006) | "
Dench soaks this movie through to the bone." — Fresno Bee Posted Jan 26, 2007 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 95%
| Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | "
Triumphs both as allegory and riveting adventure tale." — Fresno Bee Posted Jan 19, 2007 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 93%
| An Inconvenient Truth (2006) | "
The film is more suspenseful than many thrillers and more emotional than many tear-jerkers. And, most of all, it's scarier than any horror flick.
" — Fresno Bee Posted Jun 16, 2006 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 86%
| Thank You For Smoking (2006) | "
One of those rare dark,funny films that actually stays true to itself through to the bitter end." — Fresno Bee Posted Apr 17, 2006 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 88%
| Caché (2005) | "
It's a head-scratcher, and a particularly fine one at that." — Fresno Bee Posted Apr 17, 2006 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 85%
| Pride and Prejudice (2005) | "
A wonderfully satisfying film that captures much of the wit and crisp emotional longing of the book." — Fresno Bee Posted Nov 23, 2005 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 75%
| In Her Shoes (2005) | "
Stellar in its genre: Well-acted and expertly wrung of excess sentimentality.
" — Fresno Bee Posted Oct 7, 2005 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 88%
| Look at Me (2005) | "
Forces the audience to ride the waves of some complicated relationships without having a built-in hero or heroine for which to root." — Fresno Bee Posted Aug 19, 2005 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 89%
| Machuca (2005) | "
Machuca doesn't just recite a history lesson for us — it lives it as only two children on the cusp of adulthood can." — Fresno Bee Posted Jun 17, 2005 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 92%
| Tarnation (2004) | "
Here's hoping your kids' home movies never look like this." — Fresno Bee Posted Apr 8, 2005 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 92%
| Vera Drake (2004) | "
A low-key yet astonishingly vibrant film that pecks at you like an intense little bird." — Fresno Bee Posted Jan 27, 2005 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 77%
| A Very Long Engagement (2004) | "
Grand, sad and a far more sobering experience than Amelie." — Fresno Bee Posted Jan 27, 2005 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 91%
| Kinsey (2004) | "
In Kinsey, sex doesn't just make the world go 'round. Sex is the world." — Fresno Bee Posted Jan 7, 2005 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 98%
| Since Otar Left (2004) | "
You feel like you're watching a real family traipse through an uncertain world instead of actors creating relationships on the spot." — Fresno Bee Posted Aug 18, 2004 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 96%
| To Be and To Have (2003) | "
It isn't just an ode to teaching -- it's a lesson in growing up." — Fresno Bee Posted Feb 13, 2004 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 71%
| Cold Mountain (2003) | "
A grand and intoxicating love story more often felt than seen." — Fresno Bee Posted Dec 24, 2003 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 95%
| Lost in Translation (2003) | "
It's as if Murray opens the front door to his psyche wide and lets the whole neighborhood in." — Fresno Bee Posted Sep 26, 2003 |
Fresh A-
| Rotten 57%
| Prey for Rock & Roll (2003) | "
Alternatively sharp-witted and bracingly sad, the film fixes firmly on Gershon's floppy, unruly bangs and never lets go." — Fresno Bee Posted Sep 19, 2003 |
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